Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder tipped to fight in sensational UK vs USA event

ANTHONY JOSHUA has been tipped to fight Deontay Wilder in a sensational UK vs USA event.

The pair of former world champions were lined up to finally face each other this year but Wilder suffered a shock defeat to Joseph Parker.

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He was then knocked out by Zhilei Zhang before AJ was stopped in five rounds by Daniel Dubois in September.

But US Olympian and 11-0 American professional Richard Torrez still wants to see the two fight.

Torrez, 25, told : "I still want to see Wilder versus AJ, I still want to see some of those big guys go at it.

"We still want to see all of those fights happen. They will still be entertaining fights.

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"You put a big heavyweight versus another big heavyweight - that's going to be fireworks."

Powerful Saudi boxing chief Turki Alalshikh recently revealed plans to stage a 6v6 series of UK vs USA fights.

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And Torrez said: "It's going to be UK versus US pretty soon. I think a lot of these guys are showing their stuff.

"I think they're putting on the scene over on the European side and I feel like once some of us jump the Pond to head over I think it's going to be a really cool and active scene for the up and comers.

"It's building up and I'm really excited to see where we go with heavyweight boxing."